Fierce fighting raged into a second day on the fringes of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on Saturday (11 May) as Moscow said it had captured five villages, while Kyiv said it was repulsing the attacks and battling for control of the settlements.

Switzerland on Saturday (11 May) won the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Swedish host city Malmö, beating runner-up Croatia, after having been among bookmakers' top-three to win the competition.

Lithuanians vote on Sunday (12 May) in a presidential election expected to hand a new term to incumbent Gitanas Nausėda, a staunch supporter of Ukraine in its two-year war with Russia, following a campaign focusing on security concerns in the Baltic states.

Tens of thousands of Georgians descended onto Tbilisi's Europe Square Saturday (11 May) in the latest mass protest against a "foreign influence" bill likened to repressive Russian legislation that has sparked outrage.

The Biden administration on Friday (10 May) said Israel's use of US-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date of Israel.

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday (10 May) to show their opposition to European Union environmental regulations that farmers say are driving them out of business.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday (10 May) overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council "reconsider the matter favorably."

Malta deputy prime minister Chris Fearne resigned on Friday (10 May) amid a corruption scandal over a 2015 government concession for the management of three state hospitals granted to a previously unknown healthcare group.

The United States is working around the clock to provide Ukraine with supplies to defend itself against an intensified Russian attack that could target Kharkiv, the White House said on Friday (10 May).

The Olympic flame arrived in Marseille on Wednesday in front of 200,000 spectators, just weeks before the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. What economic impact will the competition have on France?

Even before Chinese leader Xi Jinping's jet touched down in Paris on Monday, Europe was anxious about how to deal with the Asian giant. Could a free trade agreement with India solve the Chinese conundrum?

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday to show their opposition to European Union environmental regulations that farmers say are driving them out of business.

With around 10% of food made available to EU consumers going down the drain - and just six years to meet the 2030 UN target of halving food waste – there is neither time nor food to waste.

How do you envisage the creation of a product which you ideally don’t want to use? That was the focal point of the Belgian presidency’s high-level meeting on how the EU should coordinate its response to antibiotic resistance (AMR).

While all eyes were on Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe, leaders in Berlin debated on how the global transition towards climate neutrality affects the economy – and vice versa.

While Russia meticulously orchestrates its interference in Georgia, Brussels seems oblivious to the increasing urgency of the situation, writes Tinatin Akhvlediani. Tinatin Akhvlediani is a research fellow in the EU Foreign Policy Unit at CEPS. In 2023, Georgia found itself...

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Most Slovaks see the EU and its institutions as the main risk factor for foreign interference in the European elections, ahead of the United States and Russia, according to a recent survey.

A Polish judge with access to classified information who fled to Belarus was on Thursday (9 May) stripped of his legal immunity, opening the way for potential espionage charges.